A New-Old Currency For Celebrating Our 250th All Year Long
Imagine if we all simply agreed to start any conversation about America or American Jewish life with an articulation of the things about which we are grateful.
Belonging
My Banjolele and My Annual Pilgrimage
These ancient pilgrimage festivals, which coincided with Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot, were anything but quiet religious observances.
Finding Friends-in-Faith
My heart fills with hope, a hope that I’d find a path back to who I was, or a path forward to who I was becoming.
Strangers, Neighbors, and Friends
Our greatest challenge may not be disagreement itself, but our diminishing capacity to remain in relationship across it.
The Officer in the Closet: How betraying my Hasidic father’s tradition made me the only one to carry his legacy.
My father’s silence told me there was something else, buried deep inside him, that I could not reach.
Retreating from Our Known World
How long before these breaking news headlines start to break me—or the deeper, real-er version of me?
In Your Midst: Distance, Presence, and the Work of Relationship
Over time, healthy relationships develop space; the love has become strong enough to tolerate separation.
Connecting with T’fillah: Zooming in and zooming out
In a self-obsessed and individualistic world, how can we recognize, delight in, and live up to the commitments we have to each other, to the world, and to making it more sacred?
The Limits of Praying for Health
Interestingly, you almost never see someone reciting the prayer for healing on their own behalf.
Faith in Fatherhood
Despite everything in me that did not want to be a father, this small boy is the greatest teacher I have ever met.